In 1776, a Native American delegation traveled from the Ohio Valley into the Smoky Mountains to the Cherokee town of Chota to call for a united resistance to white settlers. One of the Shawnee ...

Ray Suarez talks with author Anthony DePalma about his new book "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," about the North American neighbors of the United States. Well, there's no biography ...

Colonies of North America in 1776, at the United States Declaration of Independence. Statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Thirteen American colonies then at war with Great ...

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